Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-185-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Anthropology of Media

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination. It also sheds light on born-digital, community-based archives, which have established themselves as new actors in the field. Based on anthropological fieldwork, the chapters in the book trace digital archives from technical advancements and postcolonial initiatives to programming alternatives, editing content, and active use of digital archives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Müller, Katja

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgement

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Theorizing Digital Archives: Power, Access and New Order

Chapter 2. Deciding for Digital Archives: Improvement through Collection Management Systems

Chapter 3. Community-Based Digital Archives: Programming Alternatives

Chapter 4. Creating and Curating Digital Archives: Horizontal and Vertical Structures

Chapter 5. Using Digital Archives: Online Encounters, Stories of Impact and Postcolonial Agendas

Chapter 6. Digital Archives’ Objects: Law and Tangibility

Conclusion: Cultural Production in the Present with Reference to the Past and Directed at the Future

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Müller, Katja
Katja Müller conducts research into digitization, museum studies, material culture and visual anthropology, as well as energy and environmental humanities. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.